Category: HUB News

  • Online threat under investigation by police

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer FAIR HAVEN — A borough juvenile is being investigated in connection with an online threat made to an Atlantic Highlands resident. According to police, they received a call from Atlantic Highlands Patrolman David Rossbach about 2 p.m. Dec. 18. Rossbach reported that one of their residents…

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    FARRAH MAFFAI staff Pat Drummond (l-r), Donna Chapin and Peg Rice Moir, all Fair Haven, members of Women for Truth in Holiday Decorations, held a candlelight vigil Dec. 15 underneath a “Peace on Earth” banner in Red Bank in memory of casualties of the war in Iraq.

  • 2nd bomb scare at Monmouth Regional

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer TINTON FALLS — For the second time in a few weeks, there was a bomb scare at Monmouth Regional High School. At about 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 1, a call came in to police that someone had just called the school’s main office and…

  • Officer assaulted at R.B. lounge

    BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer RED BANK — The Borough Police Department is conducting an investigation into the events that led to an assault on a police officer at a downtown restaurant last Saturday. At 12:25 a.m., borough police were summoned to Red, 3 Broad St., a restaurant and lounge, due…

  • Gift giving

    Above, Brittany Faye Bruno, 5, excitedly carries gifts for needy children into the Rumson Public Works Department on Saturday. At right, the gifts will be donated to three local charities: Family & Children’s Services, Oakhurst; Toys.Com, Fair Haven; and Family Based Services Association of New Jersey, Eatontown.

  • Turkey Bowl benefits sick kids

    Charlie Eibeler, Milltown, quarterbacks for the Weichert Realtors Rumson office team during the sixth annual Turkey Bowl Touch Football Tournament held recently in Middletown. The event raised $22,000 to benefit Jason’s Dreams for Kids, Red Bank, which helps children with catastrophic illnesses, and the Zachary May Foundation, which benefits a 4-year-old Hazlet boy undergoing treatment…

  • Notes Around Town

    To celebrate “Home 4 The Holidays,” the Monmouth County SPCA is offering a “Two for the Price of One” adoption special until Jan. 3: Two adult cats or two mixed breed adult dogs can be adopted for the price of one. The MCSPCA has also extended its adoption hours through Jan. 3 to Saturday through…

  • On strike

    SUE MORGAN A group of striking JCP& L workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council U-3, picket outside the utility’s offices on Monmouth Road in West Long Branch on Monday afternoon. No new talks have been scheduled between management and the union, which represents about 1,350 employees, a company spokesman stated…

  • Impasse on Olde Union House future continues

    Architect says tavern was significant as a gathering place BY LAYLI WHYTE Staff Writer BY LAYLI WHYTEStaff Writer An architect’s rendering of the proposed Union Street Village project in Red Bank designed by architect Jack Purvis. RED BANK — In the 19th century, a tavern was a gathering place, a place where everybody knew your…